• JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]
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    9 months ago

    It's obviously sad and very disturbing, and should be the kind of thing that wakes people up. Unfortunately, the US media is very careful on downplaying/misreporting self-immolations, even though in theory it's the type of macabre story that they'd capitalize on.

      • VILenin [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        “We must accelerate the development of the empathy-disabling brain chip”

    • Raebxeh
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      9 months ago

      I think it’s treated similar to suicides where giving them certain kinds of publicity causes a predictable uptick in suicide rates. How it took them so long to start applying the same standards to mass shooters, I’ll never know.

      • rubpoll [she/her]
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        9 months ago

        Remember when they had kill ranking boards for mass killers on CNN? Like it was a contest?

        • Raebxeh
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          9 months ago

          No I don’t. What the fuck?